What's your thought on using XAMPP instead of creating a bunch of
virtual machines? You could run two instances of apache (php ver 5.2 &
5.3) on different ports and have both reference the same web directory
and mysql. I have found XAMPP to be slow (umm, my laptop is a Dell D410
Pentium Mobile with 1GB RAM) but it's probably not as taxing on the
resources as booting up two whole virtual Linux OS's within a Windows OS.
~Rolan
On 9/2/2011 12:19 PM, Gary Mort wrote:
I've been driven a little crazy lately with trying to develop for
Joomla with the following limitations:
1) Half the sites use PHP 5.2 and half of them use PHP 5.3
2) Sometimes I'm online and sometimes I'm offline
I kept coming back to "if only I was using linux, I could set things
up more easily".... Then it struck me that my desktop is a beefy
system memorywise[this solution is gonna take a lot of memory] - so I
gave VirtualBox a try.
http://www.virtualbox.org/
VirtualBox basically allows you to run different operating systems in
a virtual environment.
For my current setup, I started with Ubuntu Server:
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server/download
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